From Silos to Synergy: Integrating Oral Health into Whole-Person Care Through Interprofessional Practice
By CareQuest on October 02, 2025
Helping patients achieve optimal health and a high quality of life requires the full integration of oral health into health care systems. Such integration requires robust collaboration across disciplines, known as interprofessional practice (IPP). NMCOHRC Update: September 2025
By National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource on September 01, 2025
What’s Cooking?
Celebrate fall with foods that are good for you and your teeth!
Nutrition and oral health are interrelated. Nutrition and diet can affect overall health and well-being as well as the development and integrity of the oral cavity and the progression of oral diseases. California public health leaders reaffirm importance of fluoridation for oral health
By California Dental Association on April 02, 2025
State dental director addresses misinformation, highlights fluoride’s critical role in preventing tooth decay CDPH Statement on Community Water Fluoridation
By California Department of Public Health on March 18, 2025
Joint statement on community water fluoridation from Dr. Erica Pan, CDPH Director and State Public Health Officer and CDPH State Dental Director, Dr. Shakalpi Pendurkar, DDS, MPH. SDF is Coming to the Pediatric Medical Setting: Networking Now to Prepare for Success
By American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on March 04, 2025
Pediatricians see too many kids who need treatment for dental disease but aren’t getting it. The recent introduction of silver diamine fluoride (SDF), an easily administered minimally invasive liquid medication, has the potential to equip physicians with a way to treat children's dental caries.... Policy Changes in Medicaid Dental Benefits and Emergency Department Dental Visits
By Ashwini Ranade, BDS, MPH, PhD; Renee Y. Hsia, MD, MSc; Astha Singhal, BDS, MPH, PhD on March 03, 2025
Access to dental care is challenging for individuals in the US with low income. National Profile of State Medicaid and CHIP Oral Health Programs: Policy Report
By Medicaid Medicare CHIP Services Dental Association on February 14, 2025
MSDA National Profile of State Medicaid and CHIP Dental Programs
The Medicaid Medicare CHIP Services Dental Association (MSDA) is the national membership organization representing all State Medicaid and CHIP dental programs, their directors and staff, managed care organizations, health plans,... NMCOHRC: Oral Health Resource Center Update: December 2025
January 31, 2025
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The following news and resources are featured by the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC).
NMCOHRC: Resources to Make you Smile!
By National Maternal and Child Oral Health Center (OHRC) on January 09, 2025
January 2025 | Issue No. 47
Brushing Teeth at the Classroom Table Parent-Targeted Oral Health Text Messaging for Underserved Children Attending Pediatric Clinics
By Belinda Borrelli, Romano Endrighi, Timothy Heeren, William G Adams, Stuart A Gansky, Scott Werntz, Nicolle Rueras, Danielle Stephens, Niloufar Ameli, Michelle M Henshaw on January 02, 2025
Importance
Caries is the most common chronic childhood disease, with substantial health disparities.
Objective
To test whether parent-targeted oral health text (OHT) messages outperform child wellness text (CWT) messages on pediatric caries increment and oral health behaviors among underserved... 
